Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Henry Kokofu ,has encouraged local contractors to stop hiring  foreign workers to carry out the projects that have been assigned to them.
Mr. Henry Kokofu, speaking on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” programme, noted that it has become a culture for some local businesses which win contracts from government to rather do the projects abroad and bring it into the country under the pretence that they did it themselves, instead of doing it themselves to create jobs for Ghanaians.
As a result, he disclosed that “this year, we won’t award contract for calendar any longer. When you give a contract for calendar hoping that it will be printed here (Ghana) so as to create jobs, once it’s awarded, then they will take and do it from abroad”.
Mr. Kokofu cautioned that this attitude must stop because it doesn’t help the nation.
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Source:Ghanaweb